View Full Version : Now that's what I call a proper airshow
Mechta
1st Jul 2011, 13:41
As always you have to go somewhere sandy to get a really good airshow:
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HEATHROW DIRECTOR
1st Jul 2011, 14:43
Would I be right in thinking that film was taken about 100 years ago?
Mechta
1st Jul 2011, 14:54
52 years to be precise:8. Note that two of the aircraft types are still in service!
Farnborough allegedly had demonstrations of air to ground rocketry in the 50s, although some say they were ground explosions timed to coincide with the 'attack'.
HEATHROW DIRECTOR
1st Jul 2011, 15:00
I think you were dead right about Farnborough. My first visit was in the 50s and it was totally different to what we see there now; it's not worth avisit.
Avionker
1st Jul 2011, 18:19
Note that two of the aircraft types are still in service!
Only 2? I make it three..... C-130, KC-135 and the the B-52. Or am I out of date with my USAF OOB?
Flightmech
2nd Jul 2011, 09:57
Doesn't the B-52 always display somewhere else when it's supposed to be at Farnborough?:E
con-pilot
3rd Jul 2011, 18:14
Only 2? I make it three..... C-130, KC-135 and the the B-52. Or am I out of date with my USAF OOB?
No, you are correct, the C-130, KC-135 (plus some varieties of the old 135) and the B-52 are still in the Air Force inventory.
Aaah, the "Sound of Freedom"
Gulf4uk
3rd Jul 2011, 20:50
Few shows at FAB They have used the B1B Lancer
YouTube - ‪B-1B Lancer at Farnborough 08‬‏
well i was in a garden center in Badshot lea Farnham and on the DVD Section there was a couple of dvd at £5-00 of Farnbororough airshows from the 1940s wonderfull sights and So relaxed Aircraft close the the crowd line not almost over EGLL Well it seems that far away these days ELF and Safety etc but i will still be there in 2011 its a magnet .
dont mention the B52 incedent its a sore point that Did not happen it was not
lost it was operational Reasons we cannot ask about and it only starts others off .
Tony
AirShowJunkie
4th Jul 2011, 21:00
Ahh, live munitions drop and a sound barrier-breaking pass! The Health and Safety executive would have had a coronary if those sort of shenanigans took place at Waddo last weekend!